I thought the New Management was a brilliant way to bring the horror at the top IRL into the stories, Charlie. Mid-level staff - from senior managers to 'reports to VP or CxO' - tend to be trying to do the right thing most of the time, in my experience. The ones who put personal ambition higher up the priority list are not so constrained, whether they stay in the lower ranks or the upper ranks of the organization. That's something that's always rung true the Laundry Files, at least for me.
Thanks for the primer!
]]>It seems that a lot of the comments refer to the type of home, rather than the structure of the home. Makes sense: you can't design effectively for an environment - climate, weather, politics, societal, and so on - if you don't know what the environment is like. Any author would do well to consider where their protagonists are living and what daily life looks like before making projections about what their homes look like.
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]]>There will be direct political implications in the US, but leaving those aside, this may add much needed urgency to global efforts to adapt to climate change. Limiting the change is still up for grabs.
Insurance companies may increase their efforts to lobby for state-level and union-level action to mitigate against the coming storms. Military planners will not only dust off the 'Noah Protocols' for their big costal cites, but start to direct funds to preparing for Houston-level emergencies. Building codes might be adjusted in rich countries to be better at recovering from flooding.
I wonder if this will prompt the US to shift troops on active duty into domestic nation-building. Clearly the states and fed have not been able to manage and maintain local infrastructure. What if the Generals and Admirals see this as a time to put America First from a man-vs-nature point of view?
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